Lorel!

My sis is here visiting for the week with her sweet little baby girl and we are having a blast! I have been showing her all of the fun things to do and eat (of course) here and it has been the best! But we are so exhausted by the end of every day- so are our kids! I am so lucky to have such amazing sisters! My other sis, Cora, and her family arrive late tomorrow night. So we'll have 7 kids under the age of 8 under our roof. Should be exciting... :)

Dave was amazing and watched the kids this morning so that Lorel and I could go to the temple. She lives 2+ hours away from the DC temple, and we live 6 minutes away from ours- so she really wanted to take advantage of being so close. It was so wonderful to be there with my sister.

I love my little niece! She is only 6 months older than Rose, but SO much more advanced. She can walk around and understand everything that you say to her. She is so sweet! We do have Rose doing a little sign language and that's been helpful. The most helpful has been "AAA DA!" (all done) and she'll put her arms up over her head, instead of throwing her food everywhere. That's been nice.